Apr 17, 2014 - Sale 2345

Sale 2345 - Lot 206

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
HEYDEN, DORIS (1905-2005)
View of Caletilla Beach, Mexico. Silver print, 6 5/8x9 5/8 inches (16.8x24.5 cm.), with Heyden's title and signature (?), in pencil, on verso, and with multiple copyright hand stamps and notations, in ink and pencil, also on verso. 1948

Additional Details

Doris Heyden was a prominent scholar of pre-Colombian Mesoamerican cultures with a strong focus on central Mexico. Heyden was also a member of a group of artists, writers, folklorists, scholars, and political activists who together created the "Mexican Renaissance," and included Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo.